Politics is the art of the impossible, the last resort of fools, scam artists, prostitutes of all kinds, low-lifes, crooks, and fanatics. Look at Washington, D.C. It’s pretty damned obvious, right?

Which is why Sarah Palin is so important to America’s well-being now and maybe for decades to come. The fact is that Obama is going to hang around for a long time, even if he gets defeated in 2012 — like Jimmy Carter, another egregious bankrupt of the left who won’t walk off the stage. Jimmy turned out to be quite an evil man after he wiped off that big phony smile. Obama is going to be hanging on like a bad case of mononucleosis for decades to come. He has just signaled his real position in the political world by telling us that corrupt old Harry Reid is “on the right side of history,” in spite of all the nasty stuff he routinely commits.

That is a pure, leftist definition of goodness. In this way of reckoning, Stalin and Lenin are “on the right side of history” — except maybe for killing 100,000,000 innocent human beings.

You can get away with a lot of bad stuff if you are on Obama’s “right side of history.”

The good part is that in the coming years, Obama will haunt the Democrats most of all. No Democrat will be able to run without the emperor’s gracious nod. They’re all going to be like Hillary, begging for Obama’s favors, and they’re going to hate it.

That’s the fun part. On the other side, Obama is going to throw regular hatfuls of bat guano at the rest of us for decades to come. We are all on Obama’s wrong side of history.

So America will need a headliner to counter Obama’s famous brand of demagogy.

Sarah Palin can do it.

But why Palin and not any of the other candidates? Because Sarah Palin appeals in a more-than-rational way to all of us. You can make policy arguments for Palin as a GOP president. She is a solid, substantive, conservative thinker. She is open-minded about facts, unlike the current president — who just blocks out any evidence that doesn’t fit his mental party line. The Democrats will never have an original thought. They can only switch from one demagogic cliche to another one.

But like Ronald Reagan, Palin adds something rare and special to a substantive understanding of life and politics.

The left voted for Obama because he was black and looked cute on TV. Their campaign was pure rock star; there was no substance at all. It might have been Michael Jackson up there and they would have gone gaga just the same.

Well, Sarah Palin happens to be an articulate, conservative woman who also looks good on TV, thereby defeating all of the left’s stereotypes at a single glance. Add her eloquence and Reaganesque sense of confidence in her principles, and the left just runs out of the room screaming when she comes on TV.

After all, the left claims to own all the women, blacks, gays, and kids as a matter of entitlement. Everybody else is a “traitor to their race,” as they said about Justice Thomas. Or to their gender. On the left you can be a traitor to everything except your country.

The feminist lynch mob went into screech mode when Palin hit the national headlines, and they haven’t stopped yet. You have to go back to the “high-tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas to find them tearing off their smiley faces so blatantly. They really hate any of the designated victims if they dare to act as individuals.

Clarence Thomas coined the phrase “high-tech lynching” when he was viciously assaulted for being uppity — by being nominated for the Supreme Court as a conservative. It’s like “driving while conservative”: you’re automatically damned in the media. Justice Thomas knows what hatred looks like, having been born in the Deep South in the Jim Crow years. That’s what he saw during his nomination battle. It was a hard experience.

Personally I like Palin for her ideas, but then I’m a policy wonk. The left fears her for her looks, charm, and eloquence. She leaves them sputtering in helpless rage. You can watch it happen. It’s sort of fun if you can handle the sight of real, unvarnished hatred. It’s easier to laugh at it if you keep in mind that she can handle a shotgun.

Sarah Palin is America’s anti-Obama is so many ways, and the libs feel this emotionally long before their brains get into gear. We have a new crop of promising conservative candidates, but we don’t seem to have any other charismatic conservatives today. They tend to come along only once in a generation.

Governor Palin may need to learn more before running for the top position in the country. I don’t have any strong views on that. She learns fast, as we can see from the liberal obsession with her. They can’t stop giving her headlines.

What’s the bottom line? She has to be on the GOP national ticket in 2012, because people instinctively recognize her as one of us. She will carry the ticket, whether she is running for veep or president. Either way is fine with me.

James Lewis is a scientist by trade, and carps as a hobby about the passing parade of human fraud and folly.

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John the Libertarian

A Romney/Palin ticket would suit me just fine. Romney would turn America around as he has so many businesses, and allow Palin to focus exclusively on her core strengths of energy production. Can you imagine slashing corporate and capital gains taxes while giving leases to develop natural gas, shale extraction and nuclear energy? Can you imagine the prosperity?

Good article. I agree that she has to be on the ticket in ’12. The only problem might be, does she WANT to be on the ticket.
You hear a lot of right wing people say it’s a given she’ll run. I don’t think so.
But if she’s not on the ticket in ’12 there will be a gaping void.

If the economy doesn’t really improve, and Obama hasn’t been either replaced in teh nomination process or impeached, he will be destroyed in ’12. No doubt about it.

You can see his crazy eyes when he talks about health care now. The guy is going off the rails. We’re all on the wrong side of history to him. That’s a great line.

Palin has one advantage over Romney: Energy Policy. She is more qualified and more aggressive on the ‘drill here and now’ theme. As people continue to hurt economically, while climate change fades in importance, they will come to realize that not drilling is a suicidal economic policy.

The main disadvantage for Palin is the weak support, and opposition, of the intellectual elites like Brooks and Will. They will use the same strategy as the left to discredit her intellect and education.

Right now she has massive maneuvering room. She can use Fox News to get her message out, unfiltered. Also, Palin will travel the country raising money without any obligation to run in 2012.

Forget that John the Libertarian. Sarah will NEVER play the second fiddle to ANYONE, and particularily to that RINO Romney.
When she was being spat on by the Leftoid mob, Romney (nor any other prominent Rep figure) bothered to come to her succor. Quite the opposite; Romney even added the oil to the fire describing her as “beautiful but not influential”. Not influential! What an absurd assesment. Did she respond with the same kind of remark towards Romney? Did she say that Mitt is handsome but not inluential? Of course not. Because she has CLASS, something that cannot be bought with money or fancy Ivy Leaque “education”.
She also has something that is an even rarer commodity; A STRATEGIC MIND, a kind of a genius that allows her to make all those now famous winning moves.
I was able to recognise all her virtues from the first second, she appeared on your national stage. Even from the distance of twenty thousand kilometres.
The only small dissapointment is her endorsment of John McCain, towards whom (as I believe) she has NO OBLIGATIONS, even if she feels so much greteful for picking her up as his running mate.
However, it doesn’t disrcedit her in my eyes to the slightest degree, and should not in the eyes of my American friends.
She now has a chance to save not only America but also the entire free and democratic world.
Sarah Palin is a true leader of the world’s free people.
P.S: She is hated by the local Leftoid degenerates with the same intensity as in the US and that is the best proof that she is THE VERY RIGHT PERSON AT THE VERY RIGHT TIME AND AT THE VERY RIGHT PLACE.
P.S bis: Even in my former country of Poland she is being spat on by the Polish Socialists and it is even stronger indication of how the leftoid mob fears her…
Greetings from Aussie!

Wow, you guys honestly think that Palin will bring voters to the GOP? If Palin runs i will bet that ticket its a big loser. I am a conservative but cannot fathom her as a acutal policical option. She is vapid and seems to have no grasp of current events or world politics. Her views all seem contrived as if someone off camera is telling her what to say and she doesnt understant the meaning of the words but says them anyway. I do NOT think she will attraact independant voters and if you want to see 4 more of Owebama then you better look to a more qualified VP.

Maybe 2016 or 2020 for Palin. She needs time for building some cred and MSM needs to ‘evolve’ a little more. But she knows that. Once was enough, for now.
Face it, main street Repubs haven’t produced anyone with the right combination of qualities to buck the bias.

Sarah Heath Palin would be a fool to accept a second VP nomination — and twice the fool to accept Mitt Romney as her running mate.

Romney is a career politician in the worst sense. He lives to ascend to ever higher office, and for no other reason. He will tell whatever audience he faces exactly what he thinks it wants to hear. In other words, he has no convictions — certainly not conservative ones.

The acid test of Romney’s principles is his public record. What conservative principle did he uphold in fastening mandatory, state-regulated health insurance on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? What conservative principle did he uphold in sanctioning abortion for electoral advantage? What’s his position on the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s mandate for same-sex marriage?

A full head of hair and a handsome visage do not a conservative leader make. Palin / Bachmann in 2012!

I think Romney/Palin is potentially amazing because his perceived strengths are her EXACT weaknesses, and vice versa, EXACTLY.

But I don’t think Palin is ready today to be even a winning VP today. Too many people, rightly or wrongly, including myself, think she needs to study more, in effect, go to the library (or is it the policy gym?) and study (“workout”?). I love Palin today, but she needs more substance and detail work. I hope she is doing it, and given her trajectory over the last year, I suspect she is.

Also, the Rand Paul thing? WTF?

But Romney/Palin could be dynamite, or rather nuclear in 2012. Romney needs/would/should offer her VP+ Secretary Energy.

vivo @ #4: Quit with the epithets. You don’t bring anything to the table with them.

As for those who would push for Romney/Palin, I would beg to differ. Romney signed the health care bill for Massachusetts and that has become an extremely expensive albatross for the state. My preference is Palin at the top of the tickets and somebone else for VP. Palin’s strength: She’s Plain speaking.

Did the world know about Sarah Palin in 2006? Not very many did. My point is that there may well be better candidates out there who have not yet risen to national prominence. The malignant leftist media is going to go into overtime between now and 2012 to tear down any opponent to His “O”lliness, they try almost daily to assign a “leader” of their choice to the TEA movement. I don’t trust Romney any further than I could throw him. My hope is that the current front runners soak up all of the media venom and make room for an unknown champion to run through the gap.

Forget Romney. He had his chance. Like Huckabee, he is the last election cycle’s retread. I absolutely love Palin and everything she stands for. I say GO FOR IT. Is she the anti-Obama? You betcha!! The ticket I would like to see is Palin/Pence 2012.

Have you people already forgotten what our country looked like after 8 years of Bush. Palin is a more incompetent version of Bush. At least he stuck out his Governorship. I feel like you would have to be utterly delusional to think Palin would be a competent President. While, I do not agree with Obama’s social policies, I recognize that he brought the country back from the brink of economic disaster. Not only that, but he is wining the war in Afghanistan. He is a technocrat not an ideologue. He brought people into his cabinet from both parties. There is almost no way he will lose in 2012. He would destroy Palin if she ran against him. I think Romney is the best bet.

I am a strong conservative and I like Sarah Palin, however currently she is not even close to being appropriate for either a Presidential or VP run. Ronald Reagan she is not. Reagan had a wealth of experience, Palin has extremely little. And just how does one get past the fact she quit as Gov? I believe she has a place politically, but most certainly not running as the Pres/VP. And Romney? Are you freaking kidding? Might as well vote for Obama/Reid/Pelosi lite.

This statement is surely wrong. With all the accuracies in the rest of the article, I don’t believe this sentence had the correct meaning. Evidence points to the contrary.
At this point in history, Sarah Palin is the ONLY high profile Republican that is promoting true Conservatism. This is precisely the reason she is constantly attacked.
Pseudo-Conservatives, and Republican-Lite’s haven’t the true beliefs or education to know the difference between the representatives of these parties today..
Your article resonates with my demographic. But opinions today are hard and fast, and unless there is a significant visceral component the amateur can grasp, the appeal to them will not flourish.
Perhaps if you “Twitter” this article to the masses, you may get more agreement.

12. ParisParamus:
“…….Too many people, rightly or wrongly, including myself, think she needs to study more, in effect, go to the library (or is it the policy gym?) and study (“workout”?). I love Palin today, but she needs more substance and detail work.”

True; But, we need an antidote for Obama. Sarah is the purest form of Conservative on the horizon at present. She has the knowledge, skill, and experience to create a team and administration that shall return the United States to true Conservative principles.
Just settling for the cheap version of a Republican will bring us nowhere from the disoriented state we are, and have been, mired in.
Sarah is as close to Reagan as we’re going to get. She is necessary for the United States to acquire it’s previous and rightful status.
With Romney, you get a Kennedy. For a preview of what Romney will be like, just watch Brown.

Please let there be a better Republican candidate in 2012 than Romney or Palin. I might be able to hold my nose and vote for Romney, but Palin would force me to vote for either the Democratic candidate or a third party.

Palin is not vapid. She just does not talk like Rachel Maddows or the NYT editorial writer, the woman whose name I have temporarily mislaid, or Hilary Clinton.
Palin has definite conservative values. That and slightly above average intelligence (and she is way above that) is all it takes to make a good president. In foreign affairs, the most important thing is to do right by one’s country. Accept that you have interests that others don’t have. Accept that everyone will not like you. Accept that strength is respected, even revered. Only weakness is truly despised. If people really hated oppression, they would hate China and Russia. But they don’t. It is the desire of the US to be liked that makes it hated. Accept that you must stand by your friends and those who have stood by you. If you can, support democracy. If you can’t support the less tyrannical over the more tyrannical. That means usually supporting the right wing over the communists, and the authoritarian over the totalitarian and the less Taliban over the Taliban. Support what you are about, which is western civilization. Fight attempts to destroy it. Let people know what you are about whether they like it or not. Some will be on your side, some won’t. And never apologize for anything. Show that you love your country. Proclaim your right to exist without reasons. Forget about the need to justify your right to live, as in, we are so democratic and tolerant and nice. No one does that except us. The minute you give a reason that you should be allowed to exist you lose.

Palin can do that and more. She does not need what liberals call expertise and nuance, which usually amounts to an anti american anti western stance.

Increasingly and this may be a tragedy, liberalism means self hatred for the west. Prove you are liberal by allowing yourself to be destroyed, your whole greco roman judeo christian western thing. Don’t have any particular loyalties or attacments to your country or religion or culture. But encourage everyone else to be as particular and as parochial as possible. Even when they want to change and become more tolerant, discourage them. In the end, how many of us can accept this? Palin stands for the need and the right of americans to have loyalty to the US, to have pride, to have a religion, to have national symbols, to have a unifying philosophy of life, to be a nation. It is a terrible mistake for liberalism to define itself as being against these things, which all human beings must have.

I like Palin. I am not so sure presidents need to be well versed in anything but some useful experience and sound principles. The worst presidents we have ever had have been intellectuals, policy wonks and Ivy League graduates. I think the way to gauge our strongest candidate is to use the MSM hysterio-meter. Whomever sends the meter screaming to the top should be the Republican Candidate for president. So far,the one with the highest MSM hysterio-meter rating is Sarah Palin. That’s why she should run. In fact I think that calls for a Palin /Limbaugh ticket.
Fabulous!

Romney’s peeps were responsible for half the smears coming out and some of the leaks from the MCcain camp. Sarah did great job putting dirty Republicans and Democrats in Jail in Alaska..We need that in Dc someone to go after the corruption. Romney can go second on that ticket. Alaska was one of the 7 states to have surplus She was Commander-in Chief of Ak National guard. She won’t push Romney care off on us either..She is logical, thoughtful & agressive without being the phony Romney is. I sure would love Michelle Bachman as Attorney General too! Wow Holder in jail what a picture. So you Men out there get use to the idea of Female Prez..She will make you feel like real Men again and not emasculate you like liberal women do..

I would like to see a conservative (not Romney)elected in 2012 and appoint Palin Secretary of energy or such…then she can run in 16…street creds for the “doubters”…
.We like to hear her speak out about what is going on in our governemnt

The “doubters”..they elected a do nothing, never accomplished anything dildo in Obama with NONO “street creds”
Yet these people question the veracity of any and all Conservatives.

We are hoping for a miracle. Do no want to see Romney run for president. Pali is much too good to run with him.

Obama has words..nothing else, and they aren’t even his own words!! The MSM will be the only obstacle come election time.
Conservatives of America must stand up and do something about the media and how they treat conservatives. We never fight back!!!

Romney is a RINO.
Although smart in some ways.. He saved the 2002 Olympics, (if not for the local state church he would not have done that) yet his own state struggles with his plans/
He was one of those on the right that did not defend Palin , he made light of her.
We need someone better to run for president than Romney and not another McCain. !!! I also have a problem with people that inherited their money, never really worked in my world and then want to tell me what to do.

18. What’s wrong with being a retread? Rare is the Republican candidate who gets the nomination the first time he runs for President. Before W, you have to go back to Ford (who was an unelected incumbent), and then to Nixon in 1960 to find Republican nominees who had never run for President before.

19. Obama is a buffoon. He can’t even pretend to be bipartisan anymore, not after failing to ram health scare down our throats and then threatening to use reconciliation BEFORE meeting with Republicans. It would be better for Obama to simply abandon all pretense of bipartisanship than to continue this charade, but he is a pathological liar by nature. Now, politicians often lie when it suits their interest, but Obama lies incessantly, because he can’t seem to tell the difference between the truth and lies.

Actually I am intrigued about the possibility of a Palin/Lieberman ticket.

Yes, I know .. apostasy .. burn him at the stake! But consider.

If such a ticket were announced ahead of the primaries. It would add a stunning dynamic to the race. Several of which would aid Palin. One it would signal the end of “Businesses usual”., even were that not the case. Second it would bring the indies to crossover and vote that ticket, which btw, is maybe the only way we get Palin. Else we may well get stuck with another Mclame.. again.

It would be a strong ticket, Lieberman is very strong on foreign policy and Palin needs that on the ticket. That also might be why Lieberman would do this as well. He gets to be the lead on say.. mid-east peace, Israeli style. Palin leads on the homefront issues. It would be a win win.

Hmmm…not exactly the impression the VAST majority of Americans would have of Palin right now…

Sure, she has time and may get there, but maybe not.

And those of you harping on Romney aboout being a “RINO”…well…

He also has time to redefine and sharpen his message. Just like Reagan.

The whole point that this article focuses on is, between Palin and Romney…
WHO ELSE IS THERE? Who can bring the neccessary star-power to counter- balance Obama’s??

Sure, Obama is in a HEAP of BIG trouble…but he ALSO has time, but he is a GREAT campaigner with GREAT grass-roots organization abilities, and ultimately those who deride Palin and Romney need to realize the important factors they bring to a national ticket, precisely for those reasons.

As for me, and millions of other Americans…my vote is firmly set on ABO.

This is a joke right???? Anyone with half a brain can see that she is the most under qualified person for this job. She couldn’t even finish her run as Gov. Absolutley no sense of foreign policy. Go back to small town politics and try to be a mayor or something.

You sound like an uninformed person, who has been drinking the Media koolaide. Let me briefly list a few of Sarah Palin’s accomplishments in reverse order:
1) Sarah Palin saved her Alaskan taxpayers Millions of dollars in legal fees, defending her against ethics complaints. This was a selfless act, stepping down FOR THE GOOD OF ALASKA.
2) Sarah Palin signed THE LARGEST CONTRACT IN HISTORY between Exon/Mobile and TransCanada Pipeline, to construct a natural gas pipeline from northern Alaska, through the state, through Canada, to the Lower 48.
3) Sarah Palin negotiated a profit-sharing deal, shortly after taking office, that allowed every Alaskan citizen to share profits of oil companies, in exchange for drilling on public land in Alaska. She walked out of negotiations in the beginning, because the Oil Companies wouldn’t deal.
4) Sarah Palin saw corruption between Republican Party politicians in Alaska and oil companies, and blew the whistle on the corruption — IN HER OWN PARTY. Then she decided to run for Governor against an incombent, Murkowski, and won.

NOW TELL ME THAT THIS WOMAN IS INCOMPETENT — NOT! This woman is a fighter, and she fights for truth.
Mom in Wisconsin

I like Palin and side with Palin on her positions. I would like her and her husband as neighbors. I do not want Palin on the ticket at the present time. She is too vulnerable and needs time to develop. Perhaps one day, but Palin is more valuable as an attractive spokesperson for us “common” folk to get out the vote. You need people like that. But you don’t want them at the top of your ticket. Let Sarah help push the agenda and appeal to the masses.

And frankly, I still think it to early to start dividing up – people will develop through this year. I want a real choice this time, not some military hero with a nice life story and not much else. I don’t need the politicians choosing for me. I do know one thing – Romney is John McCain with brains, good looks, and more big government. To hell with that.

For the first time in my life, I will willingly vote for somebody that may be pro-choice “light” with some provisions. I’ll meet my Libertarian brothers and sisters half way – we both want smaller government. In return, I want SCOTUS in the mold of Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. I want the government off my back and out of my pocketbook. I want somebody with the balls to address runaway entitlements so we quit screwing our children. I want somebody that tells Mahmoud he’s going to be looking at the grave and not heaven if he so much as hints at war. I want a candidate not afraid to tell the MSM to kiss their ass and the refusal to pander.

PJM Moderators: Looks like I get to reconstruct yet another post that PJM’s E.F.C.S. (read: EPIC FAIL COMMENT SYSTEM) sent off into the ether. BTW, what did you guys change that now prevents the contents of the “Comments:” field from being preserved on Refresh or Back? Just curious. That’s new behavior here that I don’t see on any other site.

@4. vivo: Regressives

How positively adolescent of you, to think that by rebranding your own culturally suicidal position from Socialist to “Progressive”, you can automatically hijack the identity of (and, thereby, discredit) those who understand how self-deluded you are. D-. At some point you’ll discover that the Earth doesn’t revolve around you, vivo.

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It’s premature to be playing this game. Yes, a sea change appears inevitable this November, but no one should assume that. One thing at a time. Even with appropriate leadership in the office of the POTUS, if Congress isn’t completely overhauled it won’t matter one bit.

As for Palin, if no one emerges with better qualifications AND a better chance of being elected, a Palin/Bolton ticket would (also) be my preference. Right now, they represent the type of leadership this nation must have in order to restore domestic unity and prosperity, along with a rational foreign policy, and get America back to its rightful, exceptional state via the rule of law, individual liberty and the Republican Form of Government guaranteed by our Constitution.

But the problem in 2012 will not be easy to resolve. Pelosi, Reid and BHO are dragging America further into economic disaster and once the second, deeper phase of this double-dip recession-cum-depression hits, they will have succeeded in discrediting the Democrat brand for a generation. That is, assuming the U.S. doesn’t devolve into a police state by that point. A conservative Republican majority beginning in 2011 may save BHO’s bacon, just as it saved Clinton’s in 1997, but the economy is in far worse shape today than it was then, so I wouldn’t be counting on that outcome if I were BHO.

With that, BHO will be challenged for the 2012 nomination by members of his own party and their political structure will likely dissolve into adolescent squabbles. Meanwhile, Soros and The Left Wing Media will be looking for the most attractive RINO available to hold the Socialist line. Romney will be their choice.

Unfortunately, thanks to his ObamaCare 0.9 Beta program in MA, Romney can be packaged as a populist to that squishy portion of the ignorant ‘middle’ who were duped into voting for a cipher in 2008, and who’ve been duped into believing the Constitution gives Congress the authority to legislate how we cover the skyrocketing, out-of-control price of our health care (which socialists in Congress have worked tirelessly to simultaneously inflate and turn into a middle-class entitlement since the ’60s).

What this means, ultimately, is that the left’s hysterical attacks on Sarah Palin are never going to stop. SOME of that idiocy is going to translate to a generally negative view of her as a candidate (see above: “She is vapid and seems to have no grasp of current events or world politics.” – an image created from whole cloth by the MSM).

Still, Romney/Palin might be “unstoppable”. Unfortunately, it would have the potential to marginalize Palin and end up, as a result, being just one more step in the stuttering GHWB-WJC-GWB-BHO march toward socialism. Thanks, no.

Are we talking about the same Palin who loved getting money from the federal government for Wasilla in the form of earmarks, caused a sales tax increase by building a $20 million sports complex for a town of 8,000, taxed businesses to distribute an additional $1,200 per person in Alaska, and uses government-provided healthcare? No, she is definitely not a socialist. (rolls eyes)

For a political party or for an individual, winning elections is usually a challenging task, an uphill battle–unless you’re the incumbent. On the other hand, losing elections is as easy as pie, as simple as not putting your heart and soul into the task of winning.

Just ask John McCain.

This coming November and two years after that Republicans have a rare opportunity to reclaim the House and Senate and, should they show they’re worth it, to win back the presidency in 2012.

It would be an almost unprecedented achievement, following two successive trouncings by the Democrats after which, just as in 1964 and 1976, they were declared over and done with, dead as a political party by many in the mainstream media.

At this point in time, the off-year election and the presidential election are the Republicans’ to lose given the widespread sentiment of anti-incumbency, the continuing collapse of Obama’s favorability numbers, and of his presidency, and given the overall dissatisfaction among the electorate with the state of the economy and the union.

Americans got more change than they bargained for with Barack Hussein Obama and are more than ready for a reversal.

We need to stop talking about Romney before it’s too late. Romney would be fine in normal times. But with what we are facing now he is exactly the wrong person. His instinct is RomneyCare. What else do you need to know, folks? He may think small government is good in principle, unless he’s in charge of it. Then, because he’s Romney and the rest of us aren’t, Big Government will be good. He thinks the government is Bain Capital writ large, and it ain’t.
And Palin, I’m sure, feels the same way. She feels about Romney the way Reagan felt about George Bush Pere. And for the same reasons.

I find it incredibly funny how Palin is not qualified enough, yet Pelosi, Obama and company are?? Give me a break. I am not sure Obama even had to take a test, moreless pass one…He is a pure show puppet. A complete void of anything resembling intellegent thought.

I think it was Einstein was said “only an intellectual is capable of such stupidity”

While I think Palin is a woman of substance, and is intelligent (and easy on the eyes), it’s not a given she’ll run in 2012. I know of another woman that would be an EXCELLENT candidate: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). She is a staunch conservative in the Reagan mold, is a strict Constitutionalist, and basically knows her stuff. IMO, Bachmann is one of the VERY BEST candidates the GOP has to offer. A Bachmann/Inhofe ticket would be unbeatable–they would get at least 60% of the vote.

Hmmm…instinctively recognize her as one of us? I suppose, symbolically, I do recognize her as one of “us”, but not you. Having to babysit the collective retard that is the right wing is something I’m sure Sarah Palin could understand after her life with Trig.

I’m with Joshb (#45)…Most of the retreads that will grab for the brass ring in 2012 are hacks with records. Go by those records and you’ll have a great idea of how they would run the country. See Barack Obama. That’s why Romney the Rino doesn’t deserve a conservative’s vote.

Palin is a strong candidate that needs to be heard so this country remembers what a true conservative sounds like. The more she is trashed by lipstick liberals like Chris Matthews, the more I like her.

touche, please stop making up quotes by Einstein. Also, please check for grammatical mistakes before quoting Einstein. All I have to say is the Palin cannot remember three words without writing them on her hard. Is she in middle school? Is she going to go meet foreign dignitaries with notes written on her hand? There are any number of other viable and good candidates out there. Also, Bachmann /Inohofe have no chance whatsoever. Just because you like what they stand for does not mean they can win a NATIONAL election.

@Bogdan in Australia: I agree with you mate.Why is the media so quiet about these stories from AK during these tough economic times?HER 3 BUDGETS DELIVERED 7+ BILLION IN SURPLUSES.Her last budget just delivered 2.2 billion and will help her state recover faster than most states.This surplus was inspite of an 85% redection in federal earmarks.AKs previous administration had budget shortfalls in good times.She cut state spending by over a billion.Her last budget was a billion less almost than the last govs 11 billion $ budget.Despite her new big oil new tax structure,big oil remains profitable in AK.Big oil is drilling like mad on old leases because she told them to use it or lose it.Big oil had a record # of employees in 2009.Her massive cng pipeline deal starts open season bidding this spring.Enviroment Canada just gave it the green light to move foward if approved by the Canadian gov.AK still pays Americas lowest taxes.Tourism last year was down but so was it everywhere else.AK never suffered any significant % rise in unemployment,outside of seasonal adjusted rates.AK never had a housing price freefall,or mortgage meltdown like so many other states suffered.Everyone who says she is stupid keep staring at your tax rebate IOU this year.In her state they are again reciving extra cash this year,as well as actual tax rebates that banks will cash.

LOL! Best article I read all day. No better way to crush the tea party movement and guarantee Obama 2 terms is to put Sarah Palin on a ticket. Keep supporting her.

I also like the use of ‘one of us’. She is not like me. I don’t relate to her at all. I think she is a lovely lady, supportive mother and a good person. President? I have yet hear her give one coherent speech on policy, what I have heard amounts to feel good rants that only appeal to a small (don’t believe what faux tells ya) minority.

I also love how the posters here resort to name calling like ‘RINO’ (yeah, that’s original) and attacking the shrinking number of republicans that can actually get votes.

After Obama has been defeated in 2012 he will be the gift that keeps on giving to Republicans. Why? Because as he makes his marxist criticisms of President Palin from the sidelines he will be a continual reminder to all those non-ideological Americans who voted for him of just what a horrible, not to be repeated mistake they made voting for a hard left thug.

36. Minnesotaman:
This is a joke right???? Anyone with half a brain can see that sheBarrack is the most under qualified person for this job. HeShe couldn’t even finish herhis run as Gov.Senator. Absolutley no sense of foreign policy. Go back to small town politics and try to be a mayorcommunity organizer or something.

Mr. Lewis kinda bubbles over about Sarah Palin in this article. I like her too. And it is a darn sight better than the bashings she normally gets. But, the simple reality is that Sarah Palin can never run on any national GOP ticket. The east coast liberal republicans that run this party will destroy her credibility at every opportunity. They have already done so and it will continue. She is in a tough spot. And those of you thinking Romney/Palin? Time to take your heads out of your rectal orifices.

The best thing Mrs. Palin can do, IMHO, is work alongside the Tea Party movement and both expose and support candidates that are in line with our Constitution (in the spirit in which it was drafted), liberty and freedom. In so doing she represents herself, speaks for herself and helps the movement put this country on the correct path. Time is short.

I am thinking we are going to see a lot of independent, normal, common sense people elected in coming elections.

51. Dave maybe it is because you are making things up. Just quickly checking on your unemployment claim. The claims went up 50% from when Palin started as Governor. Just check the Bureau of Labor. If you look at the numbers it had been going down right until she was elected. I am guessing that if I check your other wild figures they would be wrong as well.

Can you elaborate on “in the spirit in which it was drafted” in relation to the Constitution. Have you bothered reading Thomas Jefferson’s views on various issues, including religion? Are you one of the ‘better talk to a wall’ people who believe that the Constitution was based on religion? Are you suggesting slavery should be returned?

Do you realize that Sarah didn’t even know what the vice president’s job is, according to the same constitution?

60. Dave, I assume the surplus had nothing to do with the price of oil doubling between 2004 and now. I feel like a monkey could have brought in a surplus in Alaska. Lets not forget that the states spends about 3x as much per person as the next highest state. Is that close to socialism?

“in the spirit in which it was drafted” means that I do not need you, nor an attorney, or a Supreme Court Justice to educate me on what the US Constitution means in some progressive, disturbing, living breathing way. It means what it says. BTW, the document was not written in an ancient lost language requiring translation to english by an attorney. It might surprise you that it was actually drafted in plain english, the language of our country. You might try reading it someday.

After the Congressional Democrats tripled the federal deficit, destroyed the revenue trends that were moving toward a balanced budget, and intentionally torpedoed what was a growing economy, U.S. unemployment began to skyrocket. AK’s unemployment rate didn’t climb nearly as quickly as the national average while SP was governor. Today – after three years of SP’s leadership – AK’s unemployment rate is now substantially lower than the nation’s, on average.

62. Wade Garrett: You know the Constitution was written by a bunch of lawyers. You also must know that the document was keep vague in certain areas as a compromise. Please tell me what the commerce clause means. Because, the Supreme Court has been arguing over the meaning for the last 100 years.

#55 has put it correctly. There is no qualification requirement before you can be elected President. Neither Palin nor Obama is remotely qualified to be President of any country. But then, neither am I. In fact, none of us are. So, if Palin wants that job, more power to her.

63. goy, Dude figure out how math works. They went up 100% not 200%. They doubled. They went from 5-10, and in Alaska the rates went from 6-9. However, nationally the numbers have been going up since 2000, when Bush took office. In Alaska the number had been dropping until Palin took office. Based on your argument we blaming/praising the executive for any unemployment changes. If that is the case then Obama has been lowering the the amount of people claiming unemployment since he took office. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2649/3798369877_e4e81f8e8e.jpg

Great article! The comments? Not so much. Knock off the Palin-is-dumb crap, folks. Do you even know what she did in Alaska? Have you read anything about what she did up there? Even her resignation was for the benefit of her state. She is the only candidate not beholden to special interests, the only candidate who has a proven track record of moral courage and the ability to take a knife to the government leviathan.

She is an everywoman. But she’s certainly not ordinary. Be prepared to be experience shock and awe. Everywhere she goes these days, there’s energy and excitement — that really hasn’t changed from the 2008 campaign trail. The difference will be that she won’t be stuck trying to sell McCain next time. And the same media that tried to destroy her has been exposed for being Obama shills. Are you gonna let Katie Couric choose your next president?

Will everybody just please FORGET Mitt Romney? WHAT on earth is the fascination, folks? People he say he’s a good businessman—well, didn’t he make his money by being a takeover king? How the hell does THAT create jobs and build the economy?

I think maybe Mitt Romney is the candidate the LAMESTREAM MEDIA wants to see running. That should tell us something!

@61. Brian N: – … I assume the surplus had nothing to do with the price of oil doubling between 2004 and now.

Looking at oil price history, you assume correctly.

Or, if you’re merely exercising adolescent sarcasm, that’s an endpoint fail. Palin wasn’t elected governor until 2006. Furthermore, the point in question was the surplus from the 2009 budget, which is defined by one year’s revenue and spending, not 5. From July 14, 2008 – the day GWB popped the oil price bubble by reversing the EO moratorium on domestic drilling – until well into 2009, the price of oil plummeted. If anything, falling tax revenue from oil business actually reduced that $2.2B surplus from what it would have been had GWB not acted.

Of course the real point here is that any surplus at all is an achievement few State executives can claim. Similarly, exploding the federal deficit by a factor of TEN in only three short years – as GWB, BHO and the Congressional Democrats have managed to do – is a similarly rare “achievement”.

The “commerce clause” was discussed last week on the Mark Levin Radio Show. His monologue was brilliant. You must have missed it. Well, you could check the transcripts on his web page or buy his book “Liberty and Tyranny” for a more detailed meaning. Hope this helps.

No better way to get an Obama 2nd term than having Ms. Palin on the ticket.

Just ask the independents who voted for Obama in 2008.

But hey, please keep sticking your head in the sand and rolling with what doesn’t work. Best of luck and you have my wholehearted support. You may wanna talk to some more CPACers, however, who have love for Ron Paul.

Your reaction is proof enough of your ability to read. I read it everyday.

It means what it says…Yes. So I imagine that you are against government religion? Good, you read it. Ancient language? Are you serious? First, let’s look at the fact that the Constitution IS NOT written in original English, which IS an ancient language. Second, are you even aware that several founding fathers despised the British so much that they considered both German and Yiddish to the the ‘official language’.

Now for the Constitution, perhaps you need to read it and it’s history. First, there is a Supreme Court. Second, It was written by lawyers. Third, early in history it was established that the Supreme Court’s job is to interpret the Constitution. This little point has never been challenged. Yes, some tried to start a theocracy here with ‘The Constitution Restoration Act’, but it went nowhere.

So, although you may not actually ‘need’ anyone to read the U.S. Constitution, it would help if you actually ‘understood’ it.

Of course, as expected, you didn’t answer my question so I will ask it again. What do you mean by in the “spirit in which it was drafted”? Your answer seems to suggest that you yourself think you are the spirit, so I am giving you a chance to clarify your statement.Perhaps I’ll ask it a different way, what does the Constitution mean to you?

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson

Bring her on. People run hot and cold on Palin sorta like Clinton. I doubt the pubs will put her on the ticket since she cost them so dearly against Obama. She also burned bridges with the political handlers from the McCain camp.

If she runs and she’s not on the Republican ticket it’ll split the vote and give Obama a shot at an improbable second term. If that happens maybe there is something to this “one” BS.

As for Mitt, I have to say I do wonder if America is ready for a Mormon president?

Thanks, yes. My standard typo. And the point still stands, of course, which I’m sure you realized.

- … nationally the numbers have been going up since 2000, when Bush took office.
Er… no, not at all. Bush took office in 2001, and the numbers have gone both up AND down during his two terms. On average they were the same as during his predecessor’s administration until the Congressional Democrats torpedoed the economy in 2007.

- Based on your argument we blaming/praising the executive for any unemployment changes.
Wrong again. Not my argument. Just pointing out the things you conveniently left out up above.

And I’d be happy to credit BHO with having reduced the rate at which jobs are being lost – mindful of the fact that they’re still being lost at “unexpected” rates (ahem) and will continue to be lost well into the future – if he’d actually done anything in his executive capacity to improve employment. He hasn’t.

Conversely, actions taken by GWB (in 2003) and the Republican majority (in both 1997 and 2003) had causal effects that led directly to clear decreases in unemployment, not just a reduction in the rate at which jobs were being lost.

69. goy, Please get your facts straight. The Project budget surplus for this year is expected to be 2.2 bil, due to the increase in oil prices starting this year. In both 2008 and 2009 Alaska had a large deficit and had to borrow billions from their reserves.

How was her resignation good for her state? Perhaps it saved the state money in ethics probes, so yes, that would be a good thing, but perhaps the only. Suppose you were on an airplane and the pilot came on and said “Flying in turbulent weather is tough, I’m not sure if I can do it. So, as I am not sure I can finish my job. I will now leave the cockpit and sit among you, the passengers.”

Now you say wherever she goes there is energy and excitement. I’ll give you that, but ask yourself, why is it when she goes to New York, she avoids the public like a plague? If she generates so much excitement, why does she hide from a portion of the population? Now, before the New York bashing commences, consider, that NYC is the largest city and was the first U.S. Capitol.

I am so sick and tired of people saying “she needs more time” ore “maybe in 2016 or 2020.” Meanwhile our country is dying a fast death and people want her to wait. That makea a lot of sense! These are the same people that fall for the media premise about Palin. Romney is a younger version of Bob Dole: plain, stale, white male! If it is indeed Romney’s turn, then say hello to Obama’s 2nd term. We have been down the Dole/McCain/Romney road before and we saw what happened….Wake up people!!

Hey, I’m not the one pretending that the price of oil in 2004 had anything to do with AK’s budget in 2009, bub. Hell, the price of oil has increased some 25x since 1959, why not start there?

Again, the only relevant fact is the existence of a surplus there where most other States were deep in the red. I know that’s a painful thing to acknowledge, especially when the Congressional Democrats have managed to explode the federal deficit by a factor of TEN TIMES in only three years, but it’s the reality.

No one can truly claim she is not experienced enough for the job of president. Not after Obama has been elected. Palin has far more real experience than Obama does. His great ability is reading a teleprompter eloquently.

I would like to see anyone else staying in a job that will cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees to fight off nuisance suits.

Palin draws the same hatred from the left that Reagan did. That is one huge feather in her cap for me. For those who think her vapid then I say you are confusing eloquence and a fast mouth with intelligence. I find that those traits have nothing to do with intelligence.

Oh, and if Palin just can’t be taken seriously then why are her opponents so vociferous and persistent in their attacks? If someone isn’t taken seriously then really there is no reason to discuss them is there? Fear however requires constant viscous attacks.

NotSarah … Obviously you have a big problem with Sarah Palin, hence your name. I’m Nicole, by the way.

Let me use your excellent analogy to explain a little something to you. Yes, let’s say you have two pilots in the cockpit and they are cruising along with a smooth flight, everyone’s happy, and they’re making good progress to their destination. Then a bunch of insane terrorists hell-bent on destroying the captain without regard for the passengers, breaks through the cockpit doors, and stab the captain 19 times. The captain is wounded, quite severely, but still alive. The terrorists are still clamoring for her, and she’s defenseless. She’s trying to navigate the controls, but realizes she’s lost a lot of blood, and could lose consciousness at any moment and imperil the lives of hundreds of innocent people on board.

She smartly turns navigation of the plane over to her competent co-pilot, who will be able to land the plane. She goes into a restroom to bandage her wounds, and while there, retrieves her .44 magnum, turns around, and without blinking, puts 25 hot lead plugs into the crazy bastards who tried to destroy her and her plane.

What good have the intellectuals done us? Anyone with a high school education could be POTUS, providing they had the common sense of a mule and the honesty of a used car salesman. POTUS is more of a figurehead than anything else, no real power is vested in the position. Anyone who can read, write, and listen to sound advice could do that job and still only work 4 days a week.

I unfortunately missed where they passed that new law on presidential qualifications. You might have missed it, too. Apparently, now you can’t even THINK about running for president if you don’t complete your current term in elected office. They won’t even let you into the debates. Yep, that would have ruled out the longshot runs of Jesse Jackson (who didn’t even have an office), and certainly Alan Keyes (no office). Clinton would not have been able to run (he quit his office). George W. Bush would have been disqualified for quitting at the beginning of his second term of governor to run for president. And of course, Obama, who started running for president after two years in the Senate.

Now, they could pass some kind of amendment to this law so that only people who quit in their FIRST term of any elected office would be disqualified. This would only then have applied to Obama, and of course, in the future, to Sarah Palin. Of course, both of them are disqualified by the current law from running for president, although Obama snuck in under the grandfather clause as he is currently president. Of course, Teddy Roosevelt would not have been eligible, having only served less than two years as governor before becoming a VP in 1901. We might just want to disqualify those who choose to run for president while not collecting a taxpayer salary. That way, someone like Obama, could collect a taxpayer paycheck while running for president, while someone like Palin, who is not drawing a taxpayer paycheck could NOT run for president.

Another possible amendment to the presidential qualifications COULD BE to rule out anyone from a state with a population smaller than or equal to Alaska. This of course would forestall a Palin candidacy as well, but it would also have prohibited Howard Dean’s run, too, as Vermont has fewer citizens than Alaska.

Most obviously, however, we should just have a rule preventing any woman for ever running for president. This would have a negligible impact on our nation since only one woman in 90 years has ever come close to securing a major party nomination. And it would have little potential impact on a future Palin bid since everyone knows she wouldn’t get more than 2% of the vote, anyway, given that she got 47% of the vote LAST time as VP. Everyone knows that VP candidates rarely run for president on their own. But FEMALE VP candidates NEVER do this, so perhaps we should just turn it into a law: no female VPs candidates can ever run for president. Just to prevent the possibility.

to Deo and others- I did not see this article comparing “your president” to Lennin, but since you bring it up, perhaps you should look up the Congressional Record of 1963 Communist Agenda, 45 points, compare to Obama, they are 100% the same. Or current CPUSA, again 100% in line. In case you don’t remember history, Hitler’s party was Socialist not Communist, for those who want to down play Socialists as not near to Commuinsts.
For more on Obama’s communist ties see Newzeal blog.
Anyone who does not see the usurper is a Communist / Marxist, Muslim is as blind as a baseball bat. Obama is against everything that has made this country great and Free for 230 years!
I will vote for anyone opposite Obama in 2012, I don’t care who it is. Certainly will not vote for Romney or any Rino in primary.

I know that religion will come into the race.
As long as the person is not a Muslim, I can look past religion.

Maybe we should look further into Obama’s background…after all, the left feels “nothing” is off limits when looking at conservatives/opposition. I do not believe we have done a very good job of turning over rocks..
So, time to turn the tables, maybe we can find his prayer rug hidden away.

The meeting at Blair should be a theatrical hoot!! and should prove to be totally disgusting as Obama preens for the cameras. A hope for the teleprompter to go down..

I’m with MPH (#27) that the worst presidents have been intellectuals, policy wonks and Ivy League graduates.

We need to recognize that and go with folks who have actual experience that illustrates Constitutionally principled judgment. Palin seems to have that. Unless she is doing an Obama on us, she seems to be the real deal for principled judgement.

The problem with Palin’s position is that she has to overcome the smears, and she does have a tendency for run on, sometimes stop and start speaking style. I think the former was driven by her newness in the midst of a political campaign when campaign managers are at peak smear mode attention. Few knew her and the Socialist wolves were able to paint her for the sheeple. The latter can be addressed by more practice, but is also reduced by familiarity. Her style is not hard to listen to understand, and many may grow easily into it.

“…people instinctively recognize her as one of us.”
Yes; instinctively. Not rationally. She’s an empty skirt– someone who can make you think she agrees with you– a blank screen upon which we may project our wishes, but she rarely ever comes out strongly in favor, or against much.

She loves this term someone’s put into her head; “Common Sense Conservatism”, and she repeats it with stunning frequency. Much like Bush 43′s “Compassionate Conservatism” it’s an attempt to remake what she sees as the wrong kind of conservatism. Conservatism doesn’t need any qualifiers, or any new versions or any new definitions. It’s common sense, and it’s compassionate, all by itself. To promote “Common Sense Conservatism” is to imply that there is some other kind. There isn’t.

“Drill Here, Drill Now”? How about “Get Out of The Way”? How about getting the fed gov out of the energy business, just like it should get out of the medical care business and the housing loan business, and the automobile business, et al?

Have you ever hear her speak like that? No, you haven’t. What we’re really debating when we’re comparing Republicans to Democrats is not whether the fed gov has any business attempting to run the economy. Rather, it’s all about who should be pulling the strings and how hard. It’s not that they want to take us to different places. It’s a matter of how fast.

Lets have Palin tell us which fed gov departments she’d close, being as she’s such a “Common Sense Conservative”. Hit her with that question and watch her tap dance around it. Ask her whether she thinks the government should be in charge of education, or whether it should be a free market, and see her giggle and start into a little soft-shoe routine. A conservative wouldn’t have to think about it. Conservatives already have the answers.

It seems clear to me that, whether you can see it, or like it, sexism is rearing it’s ugly head here.
Palin is written off even by so called conservatives as stupid? If she were a man – just really imagine this for a minute – do you think this would be happening? Do you think a Mr. Sam Palin who had done what she has in Alaska would be being called stupid? If Sam Palin had come to the fore with her charisma and values, and history of kicking out corrupt Governor and senators, of establishing a pipe line, of pushing drilling, of returning surpluses and also of helping run a family business – do you really not think that “he” would NOT be the unarguable, absolute front runner for President, no questions asked?
There is one reason only even conservatives ignore her history, the FACTS of her life and ability to govern, and say things like “she needs to study more (ugh); she needs more experience (did they say that of Obama, with zero experience in any damn thing?)..she’s “not ready yet” – whatever that means. It’s because she’s a woman and a damned attractive one, and a very feminine one. Even as a woman, if she was plain, single, and nerdy, she just might be acceptable. But attractive and feminine? Nah, we all know they are all “stupid” etc etc.
Like I said, pure and simple. SEXISM

I believe we had a Repub Congress and I don’t recall that being a great “win!” for America.

Let’s be clear: Palin may have garnered move votes from McCain, but only from those who are the demographic that would vote for GWB. Exit polling of the Independents (the true voice in politics as swing voters) revealed that Palin was a factor in their voting for Obama.

Remind me, again, what the CPAC straw poll had to say about Palin? 3rd, right? What about her unfavorability numbers? Can she pull #1 out of the primaries in IA? NH? SC?

Again, I say bring her into the fold, love her, wear BFF necklaces and move her little patootie to the Pres. slot for 2012. Hello, Obama term #2.

83. Get your underwear out of a bunch. People are telling her to wait because she isn’t the only one who can handle this situation. Give us two terms of Huckabee, and we can have Palin for eight years starting in 2020. After her, we can have Jindal for another eight years.

I like Palin–a lot. but people…listen to common sense…she’s a loser for 2012.

our first task has to be to defeat Obama, and that means we need to field someone that independents and even a few Democrats could vote for. Palin, through no fault of her own, has become such a polarizing figure right now that she would turn more people away than she’d bring.

she can play a critical role in 2010 and 2012, though, by being a kingmaker, and being on Fox is a great place for her.

my guess is we haven’t even really focused on whoever the eventual 2012 GOP nominee is yet. let’s think out of the box. how does anyone feel about Judd Gregg? he turned down Obama’s Commerce job–that tells me he might have some integrity.

You will not find another politician that is MORE anti-Obama than Sarah Palin.

If she runs, she will win. It will be 1980 all over again as she picks Mitt as her Veep or some other acceptable to the party elite like Reagan did and the GOP and the TPM will unite in 2012 to put her in the White House and get the Senate (if they have not by 2010).

She will also be a good example to her Veep of courage so he will be ready to accept the reigns in 2020 after two terms of the Mommabear.

Today’s politician are so adept at lies it’s no wonder we are where we are. Sarah Palin is the opposite of the modern definition of politician. I just need someone who is honorable, trustworthy, and finally says what they mean. How hard is that?

Palin is fine is she is going off her speaking points, but get on a topic she was not expecting and she is spewing nothing. That is why she cannot win. She would get smashed in any debate. Yes Obama uses a teleprompter when giving speeches, when is the last president to not do so? However, look at how the man handled himself in front of the Republicans when answering questions about health care. He had not teleprompter then. I cannot understand why you people think being eloquent is bad. Also why is the country going down the gutter? I find it has gotten much better since Obama took the reigns from Bush. That guys almost destroyed us, and Obama has been working hard to pull us back together. Please not that Europeans have been socialists for a while without a Nazi repeat.

@105. avoidswork: …we had a Repub Congress and I don’t recall that being a great “win!” for America.

Sure it was. But that wasn’t the point, was it.

Congressional Republicans were handed the majority in 1994 because of Democrat overreach almost identical to what we’re witnessing right now. That sea change signaled to American businesses that they weren’t going to be taxed into oblivion after all, and the economy started to recover in earnest from the preceding Congress’ deftly engineered recession. Bill Clinton was the beneficiary, ultimately, thanks to that shift in the economy and also thanks to the GOP’s insane choice of running the Republican version of Walter Mondale in ’96 – not much different from their choice to run McCain in ’08, as it turned out. 1997 saw the advent of legislation – passed by the Republican majority – that made Clinton’s ‘legacy’ possible.

what has the big O done to think he deserves a second term? oh if we put Sarah Palin on the ticket he has to win a second term? so better the devil we know than the devil we don’t. who will all the people under the bus vote for? 10% will sway it, i don’t believe the people who didn’t vote for him (the first time) are going to change their minds. he really has impressed me, after all, he did win the Iraq war. Biden can claim stuff they have nothing to do with, but they can’t claim the recession. what about the unemployed will they believe that Sarah Palin is another GWB and the recession will follow them home if she gets elected. as far as foreign policy is concerned bowing down to second rate powers isn’t great policy. i always thought we needed a Big Momma(Tyler Perry) for president,enough love for everyone but a 9mm in her handbag for those that get out of line. i just didn’t know she would be from Alaska. Palin 12

114. Two differences between today and 1994: 1. The overreach was more extreme, and 2. Obama sucks at strategy, so it’s highly doubtful he would know how to cooperate and exploit such a scenario. A masquerade, once broken, can never be restored.

Hey Bogdan from Australia: campaign squabbles don’t bother me, it’s part of the bloodsport. I don’t care who is in front on that Romney/Palin ticket — after the disaster that is Ivy League empty-suit Obama, we need EXPERIENCE in business and energy. Bring it!

Dirtnap: you’re no conservative. No genuine conservative would dump on Palin like that.

I favor a Palin/Paul ticket. Haven’t heard much about Palin’s book on this blog. It’s a good read and reveals how bogus the ammo is that the left is using on her. She, along with her book, have been “fact-checked” and “vetted” more than any other human being that ever lived and she is squeaky clean and the “real deal”.
In contrast, after reading Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption” I’ve come to the conclusion that if just 10% of what she writes is false, Obama et al would be suing her pants off. And if just 10% is true, we are soooooooooo srew@d.

More than anything else, the Presidency is about trust. When the Prez loses your trust, you’re very unhappy. Bush did. Obama has. when the Prez has your trust, things just seem better somehow. You feel like you’re in good hands.

The reason Palin reminds us of Reagan is NOT her eloqience. It’s the sense of trust she engenders. Remember the Reagan years. The days just seemed brighter, somehow… even in the first two years when times were really tough!

I wish she had more experience, but times won’t wait. It’s the “fierce urgency of now”.

To the guy who had not heard her speak substantively on issues, look up her Hong Kong speech. Good stuff.

#102 Lyle – “Drill, baby, drill” WAS calling for the gubmint to get out of the way. There was a moratorium on offshore drilling, and ANWR is still off-limits. She also constantly calls for the gubmint to get out of the way. Where the heck have you been?!?

To the Dems who pray for her to be on the ticket, they said the same thing about Reagan. They couldn’t believe he beat them… and resoundingly! Be careful what you wish for.

As for her being a loser on the ticket… Really? How many Dem women will cross over and vote for her just because she’s female? A chance to elect a female Prez? Oh, Hell Yeah! In the primaries, she’ll get every Republican female, regardless of what they say in public and in polls. She’ll simply carry the woman vote. The guys stand no chance. I can see the slogan, “Send a woman to clean up the mess!” Or, “Send a woman to do a man’s job!”

As for qualifications, after 4 years of Obama’s nonsense, she’ll look really, really good! She’ll get elected the same way Obama did. He was not-Bush… and black. She will be not-Obama… and a woman.

I’m taking rumsfield’s words to heart on 2012 as a conservative more truer words have never been spoken. when you go to war you go with the army you got. conservatives have Palin and only Palin on their side. No one else comes close to the her conservative messag of small limted government, strong naitonal defense, fiscal sanity, and a clear moral standard.

If conservative abandon Palin to the Rino’s they/we deserve what we get. Which will be less freedom, higher taxes, less energy, less economic prosperity. We will become less and if we allow the hit job the MSM and elites (both dems and GOPERs) to suceed any conservative that gets on the national stage will be treated the same. The days of limited government will be truely over. And it will be long live the king or dictator.

God chose Moses as his messenger to lead the Jews out of Egypt to the land he chose for them.

God chose Jesus as his son and messenger to lead the Jews from darkness to light. Those who found the light, spread the message to all corners of the World. Those who did not, suffered Millenniums of hardship as they continue on in the darkness.

God chose Sarah as his messenger to lead the rest of his Kingdom from darkness into light. God knows it will take someone with a pure and strong heart on this journey that involves great personal sacrifice.

Divine Intervention is a heady term until the facts are gathered together:

Why did John McCain select a little known first term Governor from Alaska, our most remote state of the Union?

It was not his choice.

What would move millions to purchase a book written by an unpublished author?

It was not their choice.

A relatively ordinary event was transformed into a major media event, with a speech heard by millions of people around the World. Most of the broadcasters have shown nothing but disdain for the speaker, so why show the speech?

It was not their choice.

Once the people realize that Sarah was chosen as another messenger of God and he has placed his hand on her shoulder to guide her along the road. Some who still reside in darkness will distance themselves and most who know or want to know the light, will flock to her as moths do to a streetlight.

Sarah might not be a modern day Esther, but she is the closest hope we have to escape the long darkness.

Marc – that’s the problem. I, who just voted for Hutchinson in the Texas primary and would love to see a woman president, have absolutely no trust in Palin. She has too many knee-jerk reactions and does not consider the consequences. She makes grandiose claims about her accomplishments, but when you look beneath the surface, the facts don’t support these claims. And personally, I keep hoping that the rumors that she faked her pregnancy to protect her daughter turn out to be true because I cannot fathom the decision-making process that would say it is okay to board a plane while leaking amniotic fluid and having contractions without being physically examined first. Do we really want a president that has such little concern for herself, her unborn child, and all the other passengers in charge of this great country?

Forgive me if this comment is a bit off topic, but I feel that the widespread ridiculing of Sarah Palin and her family has gone way too far, and particularly in the instance of one very grotesque and obscene individual. This individual goes by the AOL screen name of lilTrigPalin and e-mail address liltrigpalin@aol.com in an attempt to mock and belittle Sarah Palin’s beautiful child who happens to have Down Syndrome. This sad, reprehensible person populates AOL chat rooms Life – Bible Fellowship, Life – Bible Fellowship 1, and Life – Beliefs Christian, with screen names lilTrigPalin and HooverMeCheney and is relentless in their dissemination of disgusting, hateful attacks against Sarah and her family. You can report them to AOL terms of service at TOSreports@aol.com . That is all I have to say. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

You voted for Hutchinson, whose recent vote on cloture, let the Senate health care bill, move to the next step, no wonder you are so clueless. She is fervently prolife, this is why the left created a false front of blogs to spread that particular lie. She has tackled public corruption, that is why
they tried to bankrupt her with false ethics allegation, She is unquestionable
patriotic, that is why the secessionist slur. She had Obama’s number from day
one, yet the McCain campaign sought to ‘throw the match’ because they could
not conceive of any possible reason to win

Palin is exactly the same as Obama. Empty shallow, never gets beyond the soundbites and catch phrases. I have never seen or read any kind of real political policy depth from either. Just empty platitudes and promises. At the end of the day POTUS is just the sales rep on the car lot, telling the punters what they want to hear, just to get the sale. Always available to the highest bidder.

ROB SHORE, your writings are sick!!! i am a registered republican, don’t believe in ANY gods, but believe that you have every RIGHT to believe!! i am a supporter of sarah palin for president. divine intervention is a falsehood, with no basis in FACT! PLEASE keep your religious ramblings out of this rag!

#125 Trish – I’m going to take you at your word, adn believe that you’re not some troll, but actually believe what you said. let me deconstruct.

Do the math. Sarah’s baby and Bristol’s baby are less than nine months apart. She did NOT fake a pregnancy! Just how gullible are you, that you could even entertain the notion.

Well, you did vote for KBH. Yeah, I know Perry is a kinda corrupt douche, but tX is in very good shape compared to teh rest of the nation. KBH is a big government republican.

Sarah’s record.

She resigned her fat Oil & Gas position in protest. That was more than half her family’s income. Would you do that? Would any other pol do that? Her corrupt fellow Republicans ended up in jail because of her.

She simply cut the AK budget, starting with her own perks. Sold off the private jet. Discharged the chef. Cut the budget by more than a Billion!

Called the oil companies on the carpet. Use it or lose it. Oh, they’re drilling now. Made them pay more for the oil. Got that pipeline project deal finalized after 30 years of going nowhere. Do you not understand how HUGE that is? It rivals any of, say, FDR’s projewcts, but it is not make work. It creates real wealth.

See, Trish, it really doesn’t matter whether some claims are overstated… and I don’t concede that they are. The point is, she is moving in the right direction, when everyone else is moving in the wrong direction. That is all that matters, changing course!

I LIKE Sarah’s instincts.

Is she perfect? No. Who is? She is not Reagan, but she is the best thing going. It’s a sad statement of America, that we have such a paucity of leadership and statesmanship that she shines so. I’d like her to be 20 years older and more experienced, but she is what she is in these times.

She is as bad now as she will ever be. She is all upside. Look at her book rollout campaign. Flawless. Signed with FoxNews. Smart! Her approvals are mid-40′s, now, and going up. By 2011, she’s going to start to look really good to folks. She just keeps getting better.

I think, my dear Trish, that you are reading too much of the wrong blogs, or are watching too much MSM. Start over with Sarah. Give her another look. Keep an open mind. Nevermind her detractors.

The Bible says that God creats us all equally. The last thing God would care about is politics. ANYBODY involved in politics is about as far from God as you can get. That being said; why would he support Sarah Palin anymore than anybody else?

133. God doesn’t care about politics? That’s news to me, seeing as Jesus was very much involved in politics, and two of the prophets were kings! God created nations and authorities as a means of restraining evil.

As a Registered Independent I tend to judge anyone by the “content of their character”, their commitment for doing what is right or fair and those that demonstrate a “Servants’ Heart”.

God did not create us equally, only in his own image. We all begin life in the same way, but that is where it ends. Our beliefs, souls and behavior were all formed by other humans and our own experiences.

Personally I am the antithesis’ of who you believe I am.

For the past thirty plus years I’ve laid it on the line every day for a belief in Service to Our Nation. Part of that service was to ensure you get to exercise your rights to freely speak your thoughts and post your prose on forums such as this.

So respectfully, I would ask you give your own answers to the questions I posed, as I did, using my God given freedom of thought.

It has been my own experience, that most people only turn to prayer when situations get really bad. Having served through three wars I witnessed many instant conversions.

Well folks, you can rest assured our Nation is facing some serious challenges ahead and I would encourage each of you, to find the time to pray for her survival.

Marc – you obviously misread what I said. I did not say that I believed that she faked her pregnancy, but that I wished it were true. As a mother myself, I cannot find any way to justify her decisions in her last trimester of Trig’s gestation. First, she knew he was a special needs child. Second, she had two previous miscarriages. Doctors recommend that expectant mothers do not fly in the last trimester since it can cause early delivery. So why did she make the decision to fly thousands of miles in her last trimester, including trips to LA and Dallas? And why, when she wakes up in Dallas leaking amniotic fluid and later having contractions, did she ever get on a plane without being physically examined by a doctor? In my mind, this shows a total lack of common sense and a disregard for the welfare of her unborn child. I do not want anyone with this type of judgement in the White House.

Please note that this opinion is based solely on reading her interviews after Trig’s birth and her autobiography.

Forget that John the Libertarian. Sarah will NEVER play the second fiddle to ANYONE, and particularily to that RINO Romney.
When she was being spat on by the Leftoid mob, Romney (nor any other prominent Rep figure) bothered to come to her succor. Quite the opposite; Romney even added the oil to the fire describing her as “beautiful but not influential”. Not influential! What an absurd assesment. Did she respond with the same kind of remark towards Romney? Did she say that Mitt is handsome but not inluential? Of course not. Because she has CLASS, something that cannot be bought with money or fancy Ivy Leaque

I am always impressed how those from other lands see to get it, while Americans just don’t wake up, let alone get it.

Sarah Heath Palin would be a fool to accept a second VP nomination — and twice the fool to accept Mitt Romney as her running mate.

Romney is a career politician in the worst sense. He lives to ascend to ever higher office, and for no other reason. He will tell whatever audience he faces exactly what he thinks it wants to hear. In other words, he has no convictions — certainly not conservative ones.

The acid test of Romney’s principles is his public record. What conservative principle did he uphold in fastening mandatory, state-regulated health insurance on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? What conservative principle did he uphold in sanctioning abortion for electoral advantage? What’s his position on the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s mandate for same-sex marriage?

A full head of hair and a handsome visage do not a conservative leader make. Palin / Bachmann in 2012!
Feb 24, 2010 – 4:19 am

#138 Trish – I stand corrected. I’m so used to having to deal with those who are so misinformed, that I didn’t read it right.

I understand your plaint. Perhaps she did take an inordinate risk, but some would maintain that having the child itself was an inordinate risk.

This was her fifth child. I bet she had a sense of just where she was in the process. My Mother was like that. She had 11 kids. After awhile, she had it down pat. The doctor was trying to reassure her, telling her to relax. Her response was, “Are you ready to catch him?” She KNEW! Not all mothers are totally out of touch with their bodies. Palin is from AK, an outdoorsy woman, closer to nature. I submit that it wasn’t as great a risk as you think. And it did work out very well. Perhaps she knew exactly what she was doing.

Before you say no, consider that just because you can’t doesn’t mean others can’t. Impossible is relative.

This article is nothing more than the neo-cons trying to create a buzz about Palin, especially after she got her clock cleaned by Ron Paul at the last CPAC event. Why does the Republican mainstream reject Ron Paul? Clue to Republicans: if you want your power back in DC, you better get behind someone like a Ron Paul or you’re going to have four more years of Obummer.

And for all of you extolling how wonderful her energy policy is, I would like to ask, why haven’t we tapped into all that oil on the north slope of Alaska? In the 1970′s, the oil companies knew there was more oil there than in all of Saudi Arabia. Ms. Palin could’ve and should’ve declared state’s rights (guaranteed in the Constitution) and easily gotten legislation passed to start drilling.

The problem with politics in the United States is that it’s become a four year, American Idol event, which occurs between elections. The public wants sound bite politics and NEVER looks into what is behind those sound bites. We’re getting to a point in our history, where sound bites are going to bite this country soundly in the behind.

I look at DC and see nothing but Demopublicans and Republicrats…no difference!

Geezer, you are typical of the half wit repub’s that try to get cute at spinning things. Try comparing apples to apples next time. You watch too much glenn beck. Palin in a debate? She could only look dumber than normal.

Compared to Barry Obama, Sarah Palin is “massively” more qualified & experienced in the administrative craft. The only administrative experience Obama has had (aside from doling out Annenberg monies to his leftist pals) is his one year in the Oval Office. And that has been an abject failure. Palin, on the other hand, proved successful in the three administrative posts she has held to date. She met her goals. Obama is a light-weight, a narcissist and — bottom line — a loser. Worst chief executive EVER: that’s Obama.

@145. Jimm Motyka: – …after she got her clock cleaned by Ron Paul at the last CPAC event.

Jimm, in the interest of looking for a way forward, it might be good to examine your comments here. First, the only potential candidates whose clocks were cleaned at CPAC were two of the three front-runners from 2008: Romney and Huckabee. Despite their showing two years ago, they were roundly rejected by the statistically “meh” group represented by this straw poll. This poll essentially says: “I don’t want a RINO and I don’t want another guy who’s in love with himself… like BHO”.

Who’s left to seriously consider? Well Paul is rejected by the GOP because he’s, er, not strictly a Republican. Regardless what his formal affiliation may show, or how it changes, he’s a Libertarian at heart and always has been. Also, he’s an outsider – a doctor, not an attorney – who can’t be trusted to go along just to get along the way Steele and the rest of the so-called GOP “leadership” demand.

Much more damaging is the fact that mainstream America doesn’t exactly rally around Ron Paul. While I find this unfortunate – because I think his missteps regarding Truthers, et al., have been wildly exaggerate as to their significance – it is the truth. Building an image for Paul that America would get behind against the DNC juggernaut, regardless WHO they field as a candidate, would be a monumental undertaking. Personally, I like Ron Paul right where he is – supporting libertarian ideals at the legislative level.

That said, in terms of voting for a likely electable candidate in a straw poll TODAY, I might not be inclined to select Sarah Palin either, as much as I think she has the heart and character needed right now. Any election with her as a candidate will immediately turn into a Left Wing Media slam-fest that makes the campaign all about her (and whatever new lies they can manufacture) and not about where America is headed. That’s a problem, and I’d be willing to bet that this factored into SP’s “showing” at CPAC. Looking through the eyes of Sun Tzu, the smartest move right now might be to support someone like Paul, knowing that ultimately he’s not going to be the candidate, because it would draw easily managed fire from The Left Wing Media while distracting from the real plan down the line, whatever that turns out to be.

- In the 1970’s, the oil companies knew there was more oil there than in all of Saudi Arabia. Ms. Palin could’ve and should’ve declared state’s rights (guaranteed in the Constitution) and easily gotten legislation passed to start drilling.

You’re being extremely unrealistic here. A declaration of “States’ rights” to drill for oil – especially if declared by someone like SP – would be widely characterized by The Left Wing Media as the equivalent of reinstating slavery, like it or not. Until the AGW canard is more widely recognized as such – and that’s happening as we ‘speak’ – public support is not going to get behind using our own resources. I say this as someone who’s worked on the North Slope alongside engineers and scientists who have a very good idea about the vast reserves up there. On July 14, 2008, GWB demonstrated the lie in the Democrats’ claims that domestic drilling would never bring the price of oil down. He showed that just the potential for an alternative source for oil can have a remarkable effect on its futures price. In so doing, he demonstrated that folks in the oil market are also aware of the size of Alaska’s untapped reserves (he is an oil guy, after all). A conservative Republican majority can make the other half of that action a reality, legislatively, and it would definitely give our economy a shot in the arm if coupled with new tax cuts, reductions in entitlements, freeing up the health care market to bring prices down, and a reduction in the size and scope of government. We should be looking at more near-term actions like that, not second-guessing who’s best positioned for a Presidential run two years from now, IMHO.

When Palin was campaigning in Ohio in 2008, she mentioned that she backs an opening up a new 9/11 investigation. I’m not sure how the Glenn Beck followers will receive this news, especially after how Beck attacked Debra Medina for the same comments.

First off, what did it have to do with Ron Paul? That one’s easy: nothing.

Second, did you actually listen to the exchange, or did you just read the YouTube author’s erroneous subtitles and wishful thinking on the subject? SHP’s certainly not responding with any sort of “9/11 Truther” nonsense. Here’s what she said (according to the subtitles):

- I do, cause I think that helps us get to the point of… Never Again…

It’s not clear – given the ambient noise level – that she even heard all the details of the question (let alone divined “Anthony’s” intent in asking it). Either way, you realize her response can in no way be even MISconstrued as an indictment of the federal government or the Bush Administration, right? I mean, do you hear anything remotely similar to the “Truther” nonsense suggesting that they either caused 9/11 or let it happen? No.

Supporting an investigation into whether or not first responders and their families were treated fairly is just good politics IF you want to keep 9/11 fresh in people’s minds. As we’ll see below, that’s SHP’s intent and she clearly states as much. Meanwhile, declaring that we will Never Again be so lazy with our national security that we allow terrorists to kill American civilians is hardly objectionable – unless you’re a member of The Left Wing Media, that is.

The second part of the subtitles are not accurately transcribed, and make SHP look incoherent (i.e., it’s not a sentence). What she actually says, if you listen instead of just lazily following the text, is this:

- …and anything that we can do to still… to keep that reminder out there… [unintelligible].

“That reminder”, as always, is to keep 9/11 fresh in the minds of Americans, instead of marginalizing and hiding from it, the way the Democrats and The Left Wing Media have done for years. Like most of us, SHP recognizes that 9/11 was a unifying event in U.S. history, and we should never forget that it happened, nor why. The left, OTOH, would prefer that we forget America has enemies who would as soon kill us as look at us. Either way, again, there’s no way you can reasonably twist “keep that reminder out there” into a 9/11 Truther rant.

If this is all you’ve got, I wouldn’t spend a lot of time broadcasting it to the world. It makes you look like something of a crank.

trish….The first thing all the women in my family said about the antics of Sarah Palin regarding her flying, delaying medical care etc etc is they wondered if she was trying to have a miscarriage. They don’t hate her, are pretty moderate in their views. They are adamant that she knew the risks and only someone hoping to lose that baby would take the actions she did. Sorry, as a 20 something male with no kids, I have no opinion on the subject.

It’s best to remember that true patriots will always question/challenge its government. If you ever get sucked into thinking you have to be either a Republican or Democrat, then those in power have won. They’ve sold you the illusion of the left/right paradigm, rather than returning the Constitution back to this Republic. That’s precisely what the tea party is about, but it’s getting co-opted by those in the Republican party who think “it’s theirs”.

The tea party belongs to neither the Republican or the Democrats. Both parties have done nothing to benefit the US, beholden to special interests and drunken on their own power for so long, that it’s time for a real third party.

Both parties have given us taxation without representation. Both parties have helped ship US jobs overseas (via NAFTA, GATT, and insane trade policies). Both parties have given China most favored nation status, never rescinding it. Both parties have promised bright futures and have betrayed us.

Palin doesn’t represent anything, but is what’s wrong with politics in the United States. “Someone who looks good” gave us Clinton and Obama. As I’ve kept saying, the ignorance of the voting public have turned the election process into nothing more than a high stakes version of American Idol. Want proof? Ron Paul, who’s policies and ideology is closest to Reagan’s, was completely demonized in the last election. People do not want the truth. Dr. Paul was certainly telling us what was coming down the pike and it’s occurring right now.

Keep following the R&D mindset and you’ll awaken some day with your dollar worth 50% of what it currently is, the UN dictating all our policies, bankers holding us hostage with global taxes, and talking about when the US was sovereign. But to many, those thoughts don’t matter, as long as “their party” is in control.

This is not the Super Bowl, where you have to choose one team or the other, even if you didn’t follow that team all year.

The minute Glenn Beck stepped in, it was co-opted. As a matter of fact, I have footage of the Republicans trying to silence me at a Tea Party, for not accepting/shouting about our mayor’s use of eminent domain as he was a key note speaker. They told me that the tea party is not about free speech. Huh, go figure that comment.

Pelosi is an idiot and unless you’ve attended a tea party, your comments are empty rhetoric of the Republican Party memos.

If you want to see what a true presidential candidate is, do some research on the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin. Here’s their platform, which is a far cry from both of the major parties.

The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.

This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been and are afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.

The Constitution of these United States provides that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” The Constitution Party supports the original intent of this language. Therefore, the Constitution Party calls on all those who love liberty and value their inherent rights to join with us in the pursuit of these goals and in the restoration of these founding principles.

The U.S. Constitution established a Republic rooted in Biblical law, administered by representatives who are Constitutionally elected by the citizens. In such a Republic all Life, Liberty and Property are protected because law rules.

We affirm the principles of inherent individual rights upon which these United States of America were founded:

* That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness;
* That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual’s unalienable rights;
* That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;
* That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people’s rights; and
* That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.

Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are steering us in the wrong direction. No longer concerned with fiscal conservatism, Republicans have abandoned their platform of smaller government and personal responsibility in favor of an all-controlling nanny state. The Democrats are simply driving us there faster. And neither party seems concerned that its constituents would like to get off this highway altogether.

155. goy:
“No serious person believes for one second that the Tea Party movement is being co-opted by the Republican party.”

Listen to the loudest voices – Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and their ilk . . . the message will become clear . . . We are a changed Republican party. We are recommitted to conservative principles. We are united. It’s already happening. And it will be blessed by the powers that be. And there’s nothing the Tea baggers can do about it. No serious person could miss that.

And I will be sure to remind you of your tone-deaf assertion as this election year progresses. I suggest you start crafting your next stance of plausible deniability . . . why what you said here and now magically transforms into some vague and cryptic support of the coming co-opting reality. Perhaps another irrelevant linking to moral adolescence man to suggest your prescient insight that only the well-informed are able to see . . . oh the burden of dealing with so many people so ill informed.

Your pathetic wishful thinking doesn’t even address what I wrote, fake vet. You should try actually listening to and/or reading what these guys have to say, rather than relying on the distilled version from OFA, dKos, g’NYT and HuffPo.

“Stepped in”??? LOL!! Beck has been around much longer than the Tea Party movement, bub. He’s part of what inspired it. Just like many Tea Party folks, he’s been extremely critical of the Republican party. So how is he “co-opting” it, exactly?

- As a matter of fact, I have footage of the Republicans trying to silence me at a Tea Party, …

Sure you do. Just like that video you linked above, right? Where the author couldn’t even transcribe a sentence correctly. Here’s a tip: supporting a third party like “Constitution” is exactly what OFA and the rest of the left WANT conservatives to do. Third parties are a losing proposition – always have been, always will be. Just ask the Libertarians. When the Republican party is finished being co-opted by the Tea Party movement, let’s have this discussion again. In the meantime you still come off as one of Axelrod’s astroturf minions.

I DO listen to these people, fake patriot/political scientist/writer. That’s how I know what they’re saying. Just like I know what you’re saying. I stand by my statements. (Thanks, by the way for tracking, documenting and archiving my brilliance. It should be shared more than once. And your surveillance skills would make G. Gordon Liddy proud. Perhaps you could share a rat sandwich with him. Maybe get some hot tips on gold.)

The Republicans are/will not co-opt the Tea Baggers – that’s your insight. Given that they were conceived, created and funded by the Dick Armey to begin with, and marketed by Fox News ever since, you’re already behind the 8-ball. And as you now, according to Rupert himself, Fox News took it as a goal to get Republicans elected. So, good luck with that prediction.

Apparently, you’re putting all your eggs in Glenn Beck’s basket. The guy is nothing but a carnival barker. If you listen to Mark Levin or read William Bennett, they’re saying the same thing. It’s part of that whole co-opting thing. (Maybe you don’t know what “co-opt” means.)

In any event, prepare your excuses, perhaps retrofit some previous commentary. You’re gonna need it. And it won’t be long.

@161. ‘skeeziks’: – Given that they were conceived, created and funded by the Dick Armey to begin with…

Heh. Would that be THE Dick Armey, or did you mean The Dick Army? No matter – one is as stupid as the other.

Xin loi, my obedient little stalker. You just made clear that your delusions drive your empty rhetoric. Which is why your “brilliance” has you fantasizing an economy that is “coming around”… against all objective, factual evidence to the contrary.

“Beck has been around much longer than the Tea Party movement, bub. He’s part of what inspired it.”

The Campaign For Liberty group is the place where the Tea Parties started, so you really need to get your facts straight. If I’m recalling correctly, it was coined by either The Daily Bell or Lou Rockwell.

Beck rarely has an original thought, so don’t give him that much credit. He’s a lot like the political commentary character in “V For Vendetta”, who spends hours rehearsing his lines and faking his emotions.

As a side note, your acronyms and nicknames are getting annoying, especially since I haven’t a clue of what OFA or dKos means or is. And what exactly is a goy?

You are exactly what’s wrong with the politics in the United States. You hold your party allegiance above the Constitution and the Republic.

- He’s a lot like the political commentary character in “V For Vendetta”, who spends hours rehearsing his lines and faking his emotions.
And I’m very glad he “rehearsed” all that stuff about ACORN, etc., which got that information to millions of people who otherwise may not have heard about it.

- … I haven’t a clue of what OFA or dKos means or is. And what exactly is a goy?
Google is your friend.

- You hold your party allegiance above the Constitution and the Republic.
You’ve obviously never visited my site and haven’t paid attention to a single thing I’ve written here or anywhere else, and you don’t have the slightest clue what I think about the Constitution or the Republic.

Tell OFA to reassign you to a site where they’ve never heard of astroturfing. Your shtick is as transparent as it is unimaginative.

hmmm — anyone old enough to remember a woman politician in recent history who was hated, abused by the Media / TV, “elite” political pundits, and ambitious members of her own party who hated the IDEA of a woman at the helm. and especially a woman who was “only a grocer’s daughter”. Hated it so much that after she had shown that she had not only what it takes, but was the only “real man” in the government, contrived in a coup d’etat to replace her with a malleable non – entity who promptly dismantled large swathes of her successes. To be followed by a Left-wing government dedicated to DESTROYING where possible all the measures she had introduced to take Great Britain from the economic sick man of Europe, even more so that Italy, to the breathless successes of people, independent and resourceful, not natural or trained by welfare statism, parasites. OR hindered by extra – national rules,i.e. European Union. EVEN NOW the “elite” hate her. Look at Great Britain after a “RINO” and left -wing government. An economic, military, manufacturing basket case and then REMEMBER MARGARET THATCHER !

Let’s get down to the real issue, which is Palin. When the going got tough, she simply quit. Nice leadership qualities there. Meanwhile, she got in her Barbie van and went out acting like she had libertarian values. True leaders fight back, not flee. I have a problem with someone like that being in the position, such as the Presidency. That sort of reaction makes a wuss like Jimmy Carter look like a hardliner.

What this country needs is not a Romney or a Palin, who are the Ken and Barbie of the neo-con controlled Republican Party. It needs someone on the level of a Andrew Napolitano or Roy Moore. They’re not glamorous to look at, but they have the truth behind them.

So, let’s stay on subject, because I’m sensing when you’re backed into a corner, you’re too concerned on attacking the messenger, when your message is as empty as your blog site.

Governor Palin passed off the governorship because she had accomplished most of her goals and realized the left was going to keep her pinned down with weekly or daily bogus ethics charges over having interviews, wearing jackets, etc.
Pretty much as soon as she accepted the vice presidential nomination, her critics started filing ethics complaint after ethics complaint against her.
Palin’s entire administration was paralyzed by those frivolous complaints.
Sarah stepped down for the right reasons—she did not want to see her state government continue to get bogged down with inane “ethics” complaints that were transparently political, plainly partisan, and diverting state resources
She saw that if she stayed on as Governor it would cost the state millions of dollars in wasted time and resources to defend against false and maliciously ethics complaints and doom the state to gridlock.
She instead knew she could fight for Alaskans and Americans outside of office, and she knew the man who would fill her place would follow the same agenda as she had.
Additionally, she promised that she would “effect positive change outside of Government”, and she has most definitely done that. Through her large and loud social media megaphone, the Governor has written many Facebook posts that have changed the course of debate , have effectively criticized the Obama administration’s policies and she supports Commonsense candidates.( The commonsense conservative principles of liberty and fiscal responsibility)

@166. Jimm Motyka: – Used as a disparaging term for one who is not a Jew …

Get a better dictionary. One that is actually in tune with Jewish sentiment. Even Wikipedia understands it. Meanwhile, “A Shabbos Goy and his Blog” just didn’t have the same ring.

- I visited your blog. It was empty, …
Really? So you’re functionally brain-dead as well as obtuse. Who could have seen that coming?

- I’ve been voting for the Constitution Party candidates since 2004, having voted for Peroutka in 2004 and Baldwin in 2008.
Peroutka (speaking of “quitters”) and Baldwin (speaking of wishy-washy and confused) were both losers, at 0.1% and 0.15%, respectively. Congratulations on your razor-sharp perspicacity. Or maybe that’s razor-thin…

- Let’s get down to the real issue, which is Palin. When the going got tough, she simply quit.
Simply? Heh. Hardly. Again, your unsupported opinion. “Essentially, the taxpayers were paying for Sarah to go to work every day and defend herself.” Conversely, I suppose Huntsman (also resigned) and Napolitano (also resigned) were somehow “justified” in leaving their posts because it allowed them to pursue better opportunities working for Captain Wonderful, yes?

- I have a problem with someone like that being in the position, such as the Presidency.
Good. Luckily for you, she’s not a candidate for anything.

Lets see… the person we want for POTUS, the most powerful person in the world is… a vulgar, ignorant, ditzy, incompetent housewife who demonstrably can’t even function effectively in that
limited capacity. Right?
The only thinking persons who want silly, supercilious Sarah to run are the Jackass Party politicos who are eager to show her to the world as the dingbat she is.

@168. white tiger: – Lets see… the person we want for POTUS, the most powerful person in the world is… a vulgar, ignorant, ditzy, incompetent housewife who demonstrably can’t even function effectively in that limited capacity. Right?

I voted for Palin in 2008, because I figured she was the only one of the four people in the presidential sweepstakes who had any experience in leadership. In the months since, Palin has improved her credentials tremendously. I would certainly have no qualms in voting for her in 2012, should she run. In fact, any competitors will have to demonstrate to me that their love of and vision for America is greater than Palin’s.